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This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: Shifting Baselines and Endangered Species Recovery The world is always changing, bringing bold breakthroughs in technology and conservation, as well as formidable challenges. In 1970, 20 million Americans celebrated the first Earth

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: TEK and the Return of Wolves, Fire, and Bison Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is the wisdom indigenous and local people acquire by living on the earth. Rooted in a specific landscape and

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: Quantifying Wildness; Tracking Wolves and Elk in the Rockies Twenty years ago, I was a stay-at-home Montana mom living in a place where the large carnivore population (wolves, bears, cougars) outnumbered the

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: Are Large Carnivores Doomed by Climate Change? The world is getting warmer, creating an extinction threat for many species. According to NASA, since 1880 the Earth’s global temperature has risen by nearly

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: Of Lynx, Traps, and Lawsuits: The Rocky Road to Enlightened Wildlife Conservation The lynx is one of the most at-risk carnivores in the United States. South of the US-Canada border, this elusive

This Article was published by Island Press: The Wilderness Act at 50: Where the Carnivores Are Editor’s note: September 3 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Wilderness Act. To commemorate the anniversary, we asked a small group

This Article was published by Island Press: Wolves in Paradise? Yellowstone’s Wolves in Transition When Congress listed the gray wolf (Canis lupus) as endangered under the new Endangered Species Act in 1974, it set the stage for a famous ecological

This Article was published by Island Press: Resilience and Carnivore Survival in the Matrix July 30, 2014 · by Cristina Eisenberg · in Cristina Eisenberg, Ecosystems Wolverine taking the bait at a DNA study hair snare to study connectivity within